The Paul Powell savings bank shoebox

Chicago Tribune historical photo

The Paul Powell savings bank is shaped like a shoebox and decorated in money green and offers the possibility of banking any hour of the day or night and is easily hidden in a closet, according to its' maker back in January 1971. Dexter Enterprises, Inc. said it hopes to cash in on the uproar created when $800,000 was found in a shoebox in the Springfield hotel room of the late Illinois Secretary of State Paul Powell.

The Paul Powell savings bank is shaped like a shoebox and decorated in money green and offers the possibility of banking any hour of the day or night and is easily hidden in a closet, according to its' maker back in January 1971. Dexter Enterprises, Inc. said it hopes to cash in on the uproar created when $800,000 was found in a shoebox in the Springfield hotel room of the late Illinois Secretary of State Paul Powell.